"CrimeStoppers never had a public face before," Moses said, noting its more "user-friendly" design.

"The big thing is to get the kids," he added.

The website, www.CopCall.org, has been expanded to include a section for reporting crimes in schools and an area devoted to gang activity and recruitment.

In recent months, spokesmen said, CrimeStoppers has been receiving more online tips than phone tips and has also been getting photos of suspects sent from cell phones and digital cameras.

CrimeStoppers, which may also be reached by phone at (973) COP-CALL, or (973) 267-2255, is sponsoring a video contest at high schools throughout the county, termed MADCAP, or Make a Difference, Catch a Perp, which will award $500 prizes.

For citizens of all ages, CrimeStoppers has added a consumer fraud section along with keeping its drug dealer and unsolved homicide areas.

A volunteer program run under the direction of the county sheriff, CrimeStoppers added its latest improvements as it prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Officials hailed Crimestopper’s success in catching criminals over the years.

Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said the program is now a key component in his office’s efforts at "intelligence-led policing" in which investigators from the prosecutor’s office and local police departments work cooperatively with informants and private citizens to solve crimes.

In one case, Bianchi said, a CrimeStoppers report about gang-related drug activity resulted in a gang leader getting a 30-year prison sentence with 13 years of parole ineligibility.

Bianchi said CrimeStoppers tipsters have also proved successful in preventing crimes by early identification of suspects who would likely have become repeat offenders.

John Sette, who has served as chairman of CrimeStoppers since its inception in 1986, recalled another case in which an anonymous call led to the apprehension of a man who cut out another man’s eyeball during an incident at a Morristown bar. The tipster wound up getting a $6,000 reward, Sette said.

Moses stressed that in Crimestoppers’ 25 years, "Not one person’s identity has ever been compromised."

CrimeStoppers will be holding its annual fundraising cocktail party on Dec. 13 at 6 p.m. at the Birchwood Manor in Whippany.